How to use "founder" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "founder" in popular movie and book plots

  • The female main character, who is often referred to as MC, heroine, or simply protagonist, downloaded a mysterious app that leads her into living in a closed, secured apartment owned by someone named Rika, who is also the founder of a charity organization known as the RFA (Rika's Fundraising Association).  - Mystic Messenger
  • The founder of Tong Xin Yuan, Zhou Dong (Chen Shucheng), married a beautiful factory worker Li Tian (Louise Li) many years ago.  - Portrait of Home II
  • The founder of the site threatens to expose trolls everywhere, although he is aware that his methods will have the greater effect of stripping anonymity from anyone posting on the Internet.  - Wieners Out
  • dr Manning, the founder of the school, has a drinking problem, and the school is managed by his associate, the domineering Miss Dixon.  - Problem Girls
  • Meanwhile, in India, The Grand Leakage Company, a website/company, reveals Javed Bhai's whereabouts, and by seeing through the plan, Javed Bhai and Alia realise that the founder of the company, who has been unknown for years, is none other than Kalyan Ram.  - Ism (film)
  • Its creator and founder Kam Kin learned martial art skills from one of the nine undead-humans, Ying Wut-Zoek (who at the time was calling himself Ying Zoi-sang).  - Blue Veins (TV series)
  • The film is about the Italian Mode-designer and company founder Gianni Versace, whose career is outstanding.  - House of Versace
  • He brings Grampa to a plane hidden in the jungle which he turned into a secret nightclub, where such nefarious types as drug lords and the founder of Ticketmaster (who is the only person everyone immediately punches in the face) are enjoying their exiles.  - Havana Wild Weekend
  • In the end, after many ups and downs was recognized as the best exponent catholic missionary founder of the Congregation of the "Misioneras de María Inmaculada y de Santa Catalina de Siena".  - Laura, una vida extraordinaria
  • The second lays out a biographical depiction of the life of Avshalom Feinberg, the founder and leader of the Nili spy ring, which starts off during late 19th century Palestine and continues into the early part of the 20th century.  - Ot me-Avshalom
  • Springfield is having a parade in homage to the city's founder Jebediah Springfield.  - Much Apu About Something
  • Subash Chandra Bose, founder of the Indian National Army, has become disenchanted with Mahatma Gandhi's Ahimsa (non-violent) movement and desires to fight fire with fire.  - Rangoon (2017 film)
  • Sylens admits that he was the original founder of Eclipse, originally tempted by HADES' promises of knowledge, until he was no longer any use to HADES.  - Horizon Zero Dawn
  • Undeterred, Bill seeks out Cappy Ricks, the retired founder of both companies.  - The Go Getter (1937 film)
  • Kate Kassell is the daughter of Lee Kassell, the founder and CEO of Kassell Fashion.  - After the Ball (2015 film)
  • Anand is the founder of ‘Happy Ending Society’, an organization that believes that every person has a right to decide his, or her own fate.  - Welcome Zindagi
  • Sikelianos, influenced by the Orphic theology and its founder and leader, Orpheus, places him as Hierophant – officiant in the myth, with clear references to Dionysus.  - The Dithyramb of the Rose
  • Asking for a copy of the list of all Stromberg's books allows Peter the solitude necessary to magically manipulate air so that it functions as a lens (a task so difficult he is unsurprised Isaac Newton, the founder of modern magic, invented the Newtonian telescope as the easier option).  - Broken Homes
  • Aakash Oberoi (Amit Sadh), the founder of a private mixed martial arts league, is encouraged by his father to hire an Indian wrestler to salvage the league's popularity.  - Sultan (2016 film)
  • On the day of his graduation, he was approached by Simon Castle, billionaire CEO and founder of Kestrel Computing.  - Uncanny (film)
  • The Tamil association of Mumbai prepares the 25th anniversary function so the association's presidents invite the pillars of the association but only one person doesn't respond for the invitation : Karpagavalli, the wife of the late founder Sandanapandian.  - Aranmanai Kaavalan
  • Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros.  - The Greatest Showman
  • Nripati Laha, the founder member of the group, and Deepa’s brother Vijay look forward eagerly to the wedding as they both have much to gain from this alliance.  - Shajarur Kanta (2015 film)
  • It initially leads him to Viper who then points him in the direction of Lord Ogun and Ogun eventually identified him as Doctor Abraham Cornelius, the founder of the Weapon X program.  - Death of Wolverine
  • Superior Spider-Man sneers that Spider-Man is a coward for ganging up on him, but Spider-Man points out that he did the same thing as the founder of the Sinister Six.  - Spider-Verse
  • Deva eventually became the founder of Chauhan rule in West Odisha.  - Jaya Chandrika
  • Dr Dayananad, founder of Dayanand medical foundation, gives the power of attorney to Kavitha (Amala) but after some hours Dayanand falls ill.  - Uyirmei
  • Meanwhile, Cosima works with her lab assistant Scott (Josh Vokey) and Rachel's adoptive father Ethan (Andrew Gillies), a founder scientist of the cloning program, to find the genetic sequence that has caused her illness.  - Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done
  • The company in Brooklyn he applies to is About the Fit, a fast-growing e-commerce fashion startup, whose founder and CEO Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) had previously agreed to a community outreach program where seniors would intern at the firm.  - The Intern (2015 film)
  • Frost and Arthur Neverlin as the daughter of General Aram Davi, founder of the mercenary organization to which Frost belongs, while Harper shelters Taneem.  - Dragon and Liberator
  • Since then, changed the chair by the table and teaching children the "ba-bê will" programming, which have hardly opportunity without first Herval, founder of the NGO.  - Geração Brasil
  • Interviews with Vandana Shiva, the founder of the Transition Towns movement Rob Hopkins and various agricultural experts serve to argue this viewpoint.  - Voices of Transition
  • The founder John Cave is himself ironically killed by his followers when he proves inconvenient for the new religion's development.  - Messiah (Vidal novel)
  • Chibiusa befriends a mysterious girl named Hotaru Tomoe, daughter of Mugen Academy founder Professor Tomoe, who is later revealed to be a key figure of the Death Busters.  - Sailor Moon Crystal
  • James Marcus, the original founder of the Umbrella Corporation, had a daughter who was dying of premature aging.  - Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
  • Doctor Anbarasu is the founder cum dean cum MD of the institute.  - Adiyum Andamum
  • The founder and temperamental artistic director of the American Ballet Company, Paul Grayson (Ben Daniels), is determined to make it rank among the world's best artistic institutions.  - Flesh and Bone (miniseries)
  • Meaza Ashenafi, the founder of the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, arrives from the city to have her team represent Hirut and argue that she acted in self-defence.  - Difret
  • Otonashi is asked to join the SSS by its founder and leader Yuri Nakamura.  - Angel Beats! (visual novel)
  • He suddenly has a flashback to events he had previously forgotten, in that he had accepted his baptism and became Columbia's founder Zachary Hale Comstock.  - BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea
  • " Rud Whitlow goes on to become the founder of the first world state, long a Wellsian dream.  - The Holy Terror (Wells novel)
  • Kalden is, in fact, the elusive 'Wise Man' Ty Gospodinov, the original inventor and founder who came up with the idea for the company.  - The Circle (Eggers novel)
  • Arbaaz had courted with the princess Pyara Kaur (granddaughter of Ranjit Singh, the founder of Sikh Empire).  - Assassin's Creed: Brahman
  • Tionne, although reluctant, brings Crystal (Brooke Montalvo), the founder of the group, to meet her rapper friend Lisa Lopes (Natia "Lil Mama" Kirkland) and see her perform and Crystal says that she will be perfect for the group.  - CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story
  • Adam Watkins is the illegitimate son of little Sam Jenkins, founder of the snake-handling Holiness sect in Appalachia.  - Sunday's Silence
  • The -budget historical drama charts the life of Kim Su-ro, who unified 12 small countries to become the legendary founder and ruler of Geumgwan Gaya, the city-state of the Gaya confederacy which dominated sea trade and iron working during the Three Kingdoms Period in the 5th century.  - Kim Su-ro, The Iron King
  • Harry explains to him that Alex's older brother and the founder of the 5-10 motor club, Dayton, wants to speak with him.  - The Crew (video game)
  • Also serving as the main antagonists and boss characters are the Deadly Six, a group of the world's indigenous Zeti race consisting of Zazz, a hyperactive Zeti; Zomom, an obese and dim-witted Zeti; Master Zik, the elderly founder of the tribe and Zavok's teacher; Zeena, a flirtatious and self-absorbed Zeti; Zor, a diminutive and pessimistic Zeti; and Zavok, the tribe's leader.  - Sonic Lost World
  • CEO and founder Indie heads the team.  - MyMusic (season 1)
  • Rose also discovers that Lissa has the same rare power that the founder of their school st Vladimir had, that of Spirit, a power which enables the caster to heal ailments, and save the dying.  - Vampire Academy (film)
  • The mother superior of a religious order is attempting to get the order's founder canonized.  - Marx the First
  • Angela Twitchell (Joan Blondell) daughter of Rufus Twitchell (Grant Mitchell) the founder of Twitchell's Toothpaste wants to work for her father's New York company.  - Traveling Saleslady
  • Salomalo then approaches the reigning king Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire.  - Sant Tukaram (film)
  • Some of those interviewed include Henry Rollins, Billy Corgan, former record producer and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, former Sony Music Chairman Don Ienner, former CEO of the RIAA Hilary Rosen, Beastie Boys’ Mike D, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and Noel Gallagher.  - Downloaded (film)
  • Quinn's newly appointed Private Secretary, Toby Bell, becomes suspicious of his secretive nature and his close ties with Jay Crispin, the founder of Ethical.  - A Delicate Truth
  • Evan attempts to spirit him away to Greece before he can turn evil, but Beast gets captured by the founder of Clan Akkaba, so En Sabah Nur refuses to leave him behind.  - All-New X-Men
  • Just as the families renew their bickering, Gabby Cross (Jack Carson), a publicity agent for Spectrum Pictures, arrives in town and offers the townspeople $20,000 to use Carson's Corners as a filming location for a movie he is making about Wild Bill Carson, Will's grandfather and the founder of Carson Corners.  - Shooting High
  • CEO and founder Indie heads the team, which consists of people following extremely different (and frequently conflicting) tastes and attitudes.  - MyMusic
  • He is the owner and founder of Pinkham Maple Sugar Company in Vermont.  - The Life of Nancy
  • After the tragic death of its founder mr Harold Harper (Eduardo Barril), his widow Miss Helen Harper (Gloria Münchmeyer) and a board consisting of prominent alumni and parents have been at the forefront of this unique establishment elite.  - El Laberinto de Alicia
  • Ananda Kar is the founder of the Hemlock Society, that teaches aspirants how to successfully commit suicide.  - Hemlock Society (film)
  • Soon after this, Gwyneth is scheduled to meet the founder of the lodge, the powerful Count Saint-Germain.  - Ruby Red Trilogy
  • As mentioned above, the movie is based on a true story, the story of the Montreal Accueil Bonneau Choir (also known as the Montreal Homeless Choir), and its founder and director Pierre Anthian.  - The Christmas Choir
  • Within the space of nine years, between 1660 and 1669, the Odescalchi sent a good 22,000 scudi to the financier Jan Deutz, founder and proprietor of one of the principal Dutch banks.  - Imprimatur (novel)
  • Rajmata Jijau tells the story of Jijabai's life, beginning with the return of the child Shivaji to Pune, and in the process depicts Jijabai as a heroine in her own right, largely responsible for the formation of Shivaji, and therefore, for his accomplishments as founder of the Maratha empire.  - Rajmata Jijau
  • He later discovers from a local Daoist immortal that the Qin Emperor has loaned the Mountain-removing Bell to the founder of the Han Dynasty, his former enemy.  - A Supplement to the Journey to the West
  • Alden brings the request to capture Clark to Laska; who agrees to do so, with the promise to not have Clark killed – Laska reaches out to his old friend and French mercenary Fabrice Bertrand-Morel, founder and head of FBM Investigations; a shadowy mercenary team with connections across the European continent.  - Locked On (novel)
  • Alcmaeon unknowingly purchased Tisiphone as a slave, and returned to Corinth with her, where he was reunited with Amphilochus, who was later to be the founder of Amphilochian Argos.  - Alcmaeon in Corinth
  • Meanwhile, Lem Jukes, son and heir of the hard-driving founder of the largest mining corporation, is also in the remote region, far from the prying eyes of competitors, secretly testing a "glaser" (gravity laser) that promises to revolutionize mining.  - Earth Unaware
  • The story begins as Physicist dr Alexander Hoffmann, an American expat living in Switzerland, and the founder of his eponymous hedge fund, receives a first edition copy of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.  - The Fear Index
  • In this series will stage two new families: the Giordano family, composed of Maria Pia Jordan (Lina Sastri) and Dante Giordano (Massimo Venturiello), whose founder is willing to do anything to take the place of Fortebracci in the dome mafia, the that will come to kidnap Antonia (Beatrice Galati), the daughter of Tonio; the other family are the Willow, who live in the Sicilian and whose founder is Fania (Barbara De Rossi), an ugly woman and illiterate.  - L'onore e il rispetto
  • Don strikes up a conversation with a man who turns out to be Conrad Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels.  - Mad Men (season 3)
  • The show follows the life of the founder of Zionism, with characters and events based on historical fact.  - Herzl (play)
  • Lincoln's hopes for passage of the amendment rely upon the support of Francis Preston Blair, a founder of the Republican Party whose influence can ensure that all members of the western and border state conservative Republican faction will back the amendment.  - Lincoln (film)
  • At 75 years old, King Carol I, the founder of modern Romania, is living a quiet life at the Peleş Castle.  - Carol I (film)
  • And Sengoden is none other than the elder brother of Ambuli and Sengoden is a murderer as he killed the founder of the college, and says that they are lucky not to be harmed by Sengoden".  - Ambuli
  • Two German industrial dynasties, one of Jewish bankers and a founder of a chemical empire.  - Väter und Söhne – Eine deutsche Tragödie
  • They are Brad Harris (Jack Black), a 36-year-old computer programmer based in Baltimore; Stu Preissler (Steve Martin), founder and CEO of a New York company bearing his name; and a roofing contractor named Kenny Bostick (Owen Wilson), who holds the current Big Year record of 732 birds.  - The Big Year
  • However beforehand Boone managed to have pre-recorded a message for Olivia, informing her that ZFT has been funded by Massive Dynamic founder William Bell.  - Midnight (Fringe)
  • The cult members have been physically altered and modified so as to be as identical as possible, as mandated by the founder of their church.  - The Barbie Murders
  • Years before, Megas, the founder of the Order, has unleashed a genetic virus that suppressed emotion.  - Forbidden (Dekker and Lee novel)
  • The artists of Kaladarshana, led by Unni (Jagadish) reunites to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of founder Fr.  - Again Kasargod Khader Bhai
  • The series is based on the life of Nurhaci, the founder of the Qing dynasty.  - Taizu Mishi
  • Cass realizes if mr Cabbage Face is here, then Lord Pharaoh, the founder of the Midnight Sun (evil alchemists who go murderous lengths to seek immortality) is too.  - This Isn't What It Looks Like
  • It also discussed the history of Joseph Smith, the founder and first prophet of the LDS Church (using original documents); beginning with his ancestral roots and ending with the condition of the Church following his death.  - The Joseph Smith Papers (TV series)
  • An angered Kenny storms to Cartman's house just in time for a visit from Vagisil founder Jeff Hamill and his wife Patty.  - Poor and Stupid
  • Holden befriends a group of teens, including libertarian Charlotte Pratt, voyeuristic punk-rock fan Chuck McGinn, cheerleader Katie Carmichael, American-of-Chinese-descent Emily Chua, homosexual Lawrence Reitzer, American-of-African-descent Walanda Jenkins, cheerleader Kelly Stepford, founder of the school’s celibacy society Monica Rose, cheerleader Ashley Harris, and goth chick Dementia.  - Kids in America (film)
  • The Grandmaster reveals that Celian is in fact Hugues de Payens the founder of the Templar Order.  - The First Templar
  • Daniel Mohn, the visionary founder and CEO of Monosoft, reminds her that the Cold War wasn’t won by missiles, but by artists like herself and her late husband.  - The Heart of No Place
  • Ocean Waters, the founder ofURPSS, arrives with Minty to scan for alien activity by picking up Beta particles.  - The Vault of Secrets
  • In London, the Identity Unit led by Detective Superintendent Martha Lawson, the founder of the unit, specialises in cases concerning identity fraud by outsmarting, hunting down and unmasking the modern day Jekyll and Hydes.  - Identity (TV series)
  • Moses, the founder of "Buy More", calls Big Mike and tells him that the Burbank store runs a great risk of being closed due to poor management.  - Chuck Versus the Ring: Part II
  • Blair becomes upset because Chuck was supposed to introduce her to the founder of a secret French society.  - The Hurt Locket
  • The leader of the society, mr Gee (Lester Matthews), has offered to buy Monk's head (after he is dead) because he looks exactly like the ancient mummified founder of his order.  - I Love a Mystery (film)
  • (Christopher Murray), founder of the Sweetums candy company.  - 94 Meetings
  • One day the founder of the organisation, Sir Edward Gifford, witnesses their actions, and they execute him too.  - Trial by Combat (film)
  • Pregnant with Madeleine Cahill, founder of the Madrigals, Olivia raised Madeleine to believe nothing was more important than family.  - Storm Warning (Park novel)
  • The 30 episodes long television series depicts the major events in the life of Temüjin, the founder of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.  - Genghis Khan (2004 TV series)
  • A group of primary school students are assigned homework for which they will have to study the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic.  - Dersimiz: Atatürk
  • Shi Baidu, the founder and chief of the Six Harmonies Sect, pledges allegiance to Safuding, a high-ranking Qing aristocrat – much to the chagrin of his fellows in the wulin.  - Xiagu Danxin
  • Various characters appear with short lifestories including the Luciano Pavarotti-obsessed founder of the museum and her Pavarotti-lookalike husband, Hulda the cleaner who believes she is doomed to Hell, and Madalena the suicidal Portuguese student.  - Little Hands Clapping
  • All life is governed by the laws set by Munsell, the supposed and revered founder of Chromatacia.  - Shades of Grey
  • The other founder gave Clyde 20 the order to betray Clyde and he ended up being the first person in the Attic.  - The Attic (Dollhouse)
  • (Gabriele Ferzetti), patriarch and founder of the family business, who is celebrating his birthday.  - I Am Love (film)
  • With their partnership now forged, Kagenobu promises that under their watch the school will survive the lost of their founder and will only thrive with what they have to offer.  - Elektra: The Hand
  • As Max-Ernest watches them fall into trances, Cass "dreams" about her and the Jester—a man from whom Cass is descended, and is the founder of the Terces Society—and their conversation about the Secret.  - This Book Is Not Good for You
  • They are taken in by mrs McPhee, founder and head of a church mission, where mother and daughter are separated when Maydina is employed into service with the church.  - Women of the Sun
  • A voice-over informs us that Rossetti is a founder of a revolutionary group of artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.  - Dante's Inferno (1967 film)
  • He goes to work selling the Globe, which is published by Howard Price Dutton (Samuel Hinds), the founder and benefactor of the home.  - Newsboys' Home
  • Fok Yuen-gap, the founder of Ching-mou School, is trying hard to persuade and influence the other schools to unite under a common purpose of defending China from foreign intrusion.  - Fist of Fury (TV series)
  • Aikido is then demonstrated by Gozo Shioda, the founder of Yoshinkan aikido interspersed with shots of leaves falling into a brook.  - Budo: The Art of Killing
  • Hithafea accept the bid, on the grounds that Lengyel was the first person on campus to treat him well, and that the early interstellar explorer de Câmara, founder of the Viagens Interplanetarias and the first Earthman to visit Osiris, had been an Iota.  - The Inspector's Teeth
  • Evert Gullberg, founder and former chief of the Section, asks former Section associate Fredrik Clinton to become acting head of the Section and plots to deflect attention away from the Section by silencing Salander, Blomkvist, and Zalachenko.  - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
  • The mysterious mr Blue (Bruce Payne) is the founder and CEO of Blue, Ltd, a think-tank for NATO countries.  - Never Say Never Mind: The Swedish Bikini Team
  • When Professor Farraway, the founder of the RSPCB, died, he left his fortune and estate to the society.  - Werewolf versus Dragon
  • Because of the war, Leonie does not receive Isamu's letters explaining the school has been closed due to the arrest of founder Edward Rumely (Jay Karnes) for alleged treason.  - Leonie (film)
  • The Doctor at one point addresses the Lord President as "Rassilon", the name of the founder of Time Lord society from the classic series, although the character is only identified in the credits as "The Narrator" in part one and "Lord President" in part two.  - The End of Time (Doctor Who)
  • When Claude reads Peter's palm, she discovers that he was Griffin Peterson, the supposed founder of Quahog where the previously-mentioned history of Quahog was a myth.  - Peter's Progress
  • Larry Daley is the CEO and founder of the company Daley Devices, and learns that the Museum of Natural History, where he once worked as a night guard and found out that the exhibits come to life every night, is having renovations, replacing the wax figures and stuffed animals with state-of-the-art 3D holograms.  - Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (video game)
  • Trigorin and his security chief, Ranov (Stefan Schnabel), meet with John Grubb (Berry Kroeger), the founder of Canada's branch of the Communist Party.  - The Iron Curtain (film)
  • The winner gets his or her photograph framed to a picture of Moses Finkelstein, founder and CEO of Buy More.  - Chuck Versus the Sensei
  • Artyom Manvelyan is a famous physicist and founder of a cosmology laboratory in Aragats.  - Hello, That's Me!
  • A major subplot concerns the efforts of a mother superior of a religious order to get the order's founder canonized.  - Urban the Ninth
  • He goes to a New Year's Eve party hosted by the rich businessman Desmond McCain, founder of the fictitious charity First Aid.  - Crocodile Tears
  • After passing away of dr Richard O'Brien, the founder of the Nursing Home, his wife, Elina (Saswati Guha Thakurta), took over the responsibilities of running 'Tulip'and subsequently handed over charge of Tulip to her competent & efficient doctor-duo dr Moynak (Saswata Chatterjee) & dr Shomoresh Ganguly (Arindam Sil) and moved to the hills.  - Ekhane Aakash Neel
  • The book describes a visit by Ian Kelliher to his weak, technically retired, father and UAC founder Tommy.  - Doom 3: Maelstrom
  • Behind everybody's back and with the approval of Sra Isabel (Maura), the founder of the town, the black virgin becomes their new patron.  - La Virgen Negra
  • Senator Pat Lenehan: Senator Lenehan is the main administrator and founder of the IGI agency, which was created in order to combat the threat of war.  - I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike
  • However, in the epilogue, the Time Being, a powerful founder of the Seems agrees to join The Tide.  - The Split Second
  • Aiken became the founder of the Science totem.  - Sanity: Aiken's Artifact
  • After Bart interrupts an important message from Mapple founder Steve Mobbs, insulting "Mapple's" user base, he runs into a Muslim boy from Jordan named Bashir and befriends him.  - MyPods and Boomsticks
  • Joel Reynolds is the owner and founder of Reynolds Extract, a flavoring-extracts company.  - Extract (film)
  • While the aliens regroup and destroy a nearby fort, Zeke and Verity arrive at Silver City with the settlers, only to discover that, aside from a handyman named Alan Cross (the original founder and mayor of the city), most of the town's inhabitants left after it was discovered that the silver mines were empty.  - Cowboys & Aliens (comics)
  • A statue is being dedicated to the late founder of Hoyt City, and reporters from around the country have gathered, speculating that "the old lady's going to talk".  - The Great Man's Lady
  • On the other hand, Hype also encounters a great number of foes including King Taskan I and his followers; Rajoth the magician - founder of the Laboratories; Enost - King Taskan III's wizard, who defects to the Barnak's side; numerous different soldiers, including Barnak's armies of Black Guards and other servants; Barnak's black dragon Vhoid and finally the evil Barnak himself.  - Hype: The Time Quest
  • Yeats, the founder of the Abbey, accepts and produces his new play.  - Young Cassidy
  • Then the reader meets the grandfather Anatem, the legendary founder of the village.  - The Old Red Hippopotamus
  • Baba, a Yoruba priest and plumber, is the founder of the community gallery in the neighborhood, which occupies the bottom two floors of his three-story house.  - Flag Wars
  • This is a reference to UNIT founder Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, who first appeared in the Season 5 serial The Web of Fear (1968).  - The Poison Sky
  • Dmitri Galishnikov, founder of Medexco, an Israeli oil company, and his wife sit in their family room astonished at what has just happened.  - Dead Heat (Rosenberg novel)
  • Company founder Linden Wood is dead, but his son Lance now runs the company, and his four other children, Ebony, Olive, Ash and Bass all have a stake.  - "E" Is for Evidence
  • As a prison organizer, George was recruited by Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton to head the Peoples Army, a euphemism which would become synonymous with the name Black Guerrilla Family.  - Black August (film)
  • The trip ends with a bang after Dan accidentally sets a beloved statue of the camp's founder on fire.  - Old Dogs (film)
  • He was the original founder of the Chronos café.  - Time Hollow
  • On the battlefield, Rudolf, founder of the Habsburg dynasty, bequeaths the states of Styria and Austria to his children, and is hailed as a noble and gracious victor by all.  - König Ottokars Glück und Ende
  • After the debacle of Istanbul, the virtually immortal leader and founder of the Brotherhood, known as Itsu, the Hand Sinister, laid a cunning elaborate trap for Agent 13, knowing his agents were vulnerable with the special crystal (Seer Stone) in Agent 13's possession, the renegade who would stop at nothing to thwart the Brotherhood.  - Agent 13: The Invisible Empire
  • This program is based on 'Lil Ella a cartoon character created by Kelton Mosby the founder of Karoshi/Macrocorp, based on Ella Fiscus, a child star who died in a factory accident.  - Cyberella
  • Thorn tells her the legend of the founder of the Fury family, killed in battle, his body defended by the ghost of his pet Barbary ape.  - Blanche Fury
  • stands for Mei Mishima, daughter of Souichiro Mishima, founder of Mishima Electronics.  - Kemeko Deluxe!
  • The commercial concludes with the statement "We respectfully commemorate Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of our country and bank".  - İş Bank commercial featuring Atatürk
  • They also learn that there is no person named "Rossum"—the company founder took the name from the play "RUR".  - Dollhouse (TV series)
  • Pimentel's idol is College Bowl founder dr Padrow (Hector Elizondo), but upon trying out for dr Padrow, the ambitious young speaker is informed that he won't have anything to talk about until he has lived a full life.  - Music Within
  • The year is 1919 and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle must investigate the murder of his mentor (and founder of the The Arcanum), Konstantin Duvall.  - The Arcanum (novel)
  • Meanwhile, flashbacks tell the brutal story of John Gideon, Julia’s dead grandfather, who rose from a prison ship to become founder of Argentina’s greatest fortune and whose life is somehow entwined in these events.  - War of the Raven
  • Made up of 108 cute girls, buxom women, and bishōnen, the Sekirei fight in a competition known as the "Sekirei Plan" organized by Hiroto Minaka, the chairman and founder of the mysterious and powerful MBI Corporation.  - Sekirei
  • Along the way he encounters many historical figures, including fellow magicians Harry Houdini and Howard Thurston, United States President Warren Harding, BMW founder Max Friz, the Marx Brothers, business magnate Francis Marion "Borax" Smith, the inventor of electronic television Philo Farnsworth, and San Franciscan madams Tessie Wall and Jessie Hayman.  - Carter Beats the Devil
  • The founder and brewmaster of an upstart microbrewery, Tommy has a voracious appetite for food, beer and women.  - Unhitched
  • The section involves the "Savage Detectives" closing in on Cesárea Tinajero, an elusive poet who is the founder of Visceral Realism, while they are chased by a pimp named Alberto and a corrupt Mexican police officer.  - The Savage Detectives
  • In a storyline inspired by the vicissitudes of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, Channing McClaren (Ryan Phillippe) is a computer expert and the iconoclastic founder of a website, McClarenTruthorg, devoted to government and corporate transparency.  - Damages (TV series)
  • Karen is assisted in finding (and uncovering) corrupt politicians by Dale Busch, the cantankerous founder of Open America (played by Denver Pyle in the pilot episode, Charles Lane would later play the role).  - Karen (1975 TV series)
  • The film unfolds during the probate hearing determining the disposition of assets of the estate of Abel Edwards beta, the clone of the founder of the Edwards Corporation (EC), the most successful entertainment conglomerate of the 20th Century.  - Able Edwards
  • Tex Murphy is hired by business mogul Marshall Alexander, founder of TerraForm Corporation, to locate his missing daughter, Alexis.  - Martian Memorandum
  • The player then fights their way to the grave of the founder of Steelight, to find he has returned as a ghost, drawn back by the terrible happenings that began in Silverfall.  - Silverfall
  • The "Hurst Castle" is abandoned but does not founder in a gale and the crew, unable to get to him, are forced to leave Stetworth marooned aboard.  - In the Sargasso Sea
  • Stringer Winfield, the postal carrier, warns her that town founder Micah Ralston and ranch partner Sturdy own practically everything and everybody.  - Texas Lady
  • At a nearby pub, the Turtles have a disastrous meeting with the Beatles, in which Turtles guitarist Jim Tucker is verbally abused by John Lennon, leading the Turtles to leave the bar as Kaylan stays behind and Brian Jones, the founder of the Rolling Stones, introduces Kaylan to Jimi Hendrix, who Kaylan ends up having dinner and a conversation with, while the two drink much alcohol and smoke marijuana, with the evening ultimately ending with Kaylan vomiting on Hendrix' suit.  - My Dinner with Jimi
  • Jesse Weill is founder and owner of Dreams Inc, a company that produces dreams for the individual's private use, just as films used to be viewed, although they've been superseded by 'dreamies'.  - Dreaming Is a Private Thing
  • Their most notorious driver is Michel, the son of the team's founder and owner Henri and younger brother of Jean-Pierre, the team's manager.  - Michel Vaillant (film)
  • It made a private off-exchange deal with PCC's founder Richard Li.  - Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions
  • They also learn that Dropstone's founder Sophia was also a former resident, evacuating with several of the citizens to form the nearby village.  - Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
  • At the end of Time and Again, Morley had prevented the meeting of the parents of the founder of the time travel Project, dr Danziger, and ensured that dr Danziger would not be born, and that the Project would not occur.  - From Time to Time (novel)
  • ” The spur was bestowed generations earlier to Paton, the founder of the family line, by a grateful Wyvern whose spirit then remained as an entity known as the Guardian.  - The Wyvern's Spur
  • After the nuclear holocaust the self-sufficient space arcologies (with a total population less than 1 million) began to fragment and some went off looking for new planets, as their industrialist founder had intended.  - Between the Strokes of Night
  • While attending a Christian revival meeting, 19-year-old Christy Huddleson is fascinated when she listens to the founder of an Appalachian mission program as he describes the work his group is doing and the needs of the Cutter Gap community.  - Christy (novel)
  • One of the users from the website is the founder of WAA himself, Joe Bob Fenestre - the second richest man in the country.  - The Warning (novel)
  • In the 1980s, televangelist and PTL Club founder Jim Bakker (Spacey), and his wife Tammy (Peters), decide to expand their PTL television ministry to include a village resort with an amusement park, which they christen Heritage USA.  - Fall from Grace (1990 film)
  • They never had descendants of their founder before, even though Huey, Dewey and Louie weren't the first ones to try; Donald had also tried to join them, but was rejected because of his bad temper.  - W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N.
  • One of Supreme's robot clones enters the trial, having found the book in the home of Marcus Langston/Sentinel, the founder and leader of Team Youngblood.  - Judgment Day (Awesome Comics)
  • Quagmire is deeply disappointed with himself, and goes to the bar, where Playboy founder Hugh Hefner meets him.  - Airport '07
  • However, they mention that before they are willing to take him there, they require some information alluding to a person they believe he knew in his time: the founder of the UAL who helped initiate a great event that made the entire world atheist.  - Go God Go
  • The founder of virtual reality, dr Benjamin Trace (Patrick Bergin), has lost a legal battle to secure a patent on the most powerful worldwide communications chip ever invented.  - Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
  • The founder of the MEK movement is Sarissa Leon, who has become a celebrity of the new fad.  - Mek (comics)
  • Aliera refuses to leave without Morrolan and goes to talk with the soul of Kieron the Conqueror, the founder of the Empire and her distant relative.  - Taltos (Brust novel)
  • Handsome but promiscuous, the latter earning his nickname the Love Machine after he describes television with the same sobriquet, Robin is loved beyond all reason by three women: Amanda, the beautiful but doomed fashion model; Maggie, the beautiful but headstrong fellow journalist; and Judith, the beautiful but aging wife of fourth-network founder Gregory Austin.  - The Love Machine (novel)
  • They founder on a line of submerged stakes set by Záva hiding in the water, who then swarm aboard.  - The Virgin of Zesh
  • Earning occasional financial support from poet Cummings, portrait painter Alice Neel, Village Vanguard founder Max Gordon, and art gallery owner Vivian Marquie, among others, Gould is able to secure a nightly room in flophouses until an anonymous benefactor arranges accommodations in a residential hotel for him.  - Joe Gould's Secret (film)
  • The founder and owner of a large cosmetics company, Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot), is disturbed when her firm's sales begin to drop after it becomes apparent to her customer base that she is aging.  - The Wasp Woman
  • The two reveal themselves as the founder of the Ming dynasty and his chief counselor, Liu Bowen.  - The Battles of Coxinga
  • The box is delivered to Chief Judge Hershey, who informs Dredd that it contains a ransom note and a sample of living tissue which matches the DNA of Judge Fargo, the first chief judge and the revered founder of the Judge System.  - Origins (Judge Dredd story)
  • This is an apparent reference to Scientology and its founder Ron Hubbard.  - A Token of My Extreme
  • After the murder of Hungerford Industries founder Hungerford (Patrick Macnee), also a close friend of the Stone family, Zach convincesX.  - Super Force
  • In the Crystal City, Virginia headquarters of the software company Eurisko, founder Brad Wilczek and chief executive officer Benjamin Drake argue about downsizing measures.  - Ghost in the Machine (The X-Files)
  • When disaster strikes at the mine, Amita (Mala Sinha), daughter of the paper's deceased founder re-employs him.  - Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi
  • Shiwan Khan (John Lone), the Tulku's rogue protégé and murderer whose powers apparently surpass Cranston's, wakes up while in a sarcophagus once belonged to his ancestor - the Mongol Empire founder Genghis Khan.  - The Shadow (1994 film)
  • Throughout the book Karigan has ghostly visions of Lil Ambriodhe, First Rider, and legendary founder of the Green Rider messenger service.  - First Rider's Call
  • The townspeople band together to battle the Del Fuegos, but just as Jack threatens to take on the rest of the town, Damien Blade (Peter Fonda), Jack's father and the founder of the Del Fuegos, arrives and stops the fight.  - Wild Hogs
  • Eventually she will marry Oliver Lawrence, the founder of the academy.  - Legs Weaver
  • Dom Giotti, founder of the Staten Island Catapult Development Committee (SICDC) maintains that the commuting needs of Staten Islanders have long been underserved by a cost-prohibitive dichotomy of bridge or boat.  - Staten Island Catapult
  • De Camp brings in numerous other historical personages of the era, notably Chares' sculpting mentor Lyssipos of Sikyon, the mathematician Eukleidēs, Babylonian historian Berossos (initially as a member of the sculptor's catapult crew), Rhodes's antagonists Demetrios Poliorketes and Antigonus, Egyptian historian Manethos, Egyptian king Ptolemaios, and Demetrios of Phalerum, reputed founder of the Library of Alexandria.  - The Bronze God of Rhodes
  • Agito consults his father Agashi, the founder of Neutral City who, as a result of being enhanced and having overused his powers, has turned almost completely into a tree.  - Origin: Spirits of the Past
  • Bernice lands in France in 1798 and makes friends with Vivant Denon, a founder of modern Egyptology and one of her heroes.  - Set Piece (novel)
  • Paleontologist Alan Grant and his paleobotanist graduate student, Ellie Sattler, are abruptly whisked away by billionaire John Hammond — founder and chief executive officer of International Genetic Technologies, or InGen — for a weekend visit to a "biological preserve" he has established on Isla Nublar.  - Jurassic Park (novel)
  • At the press conference, she learns the man she thought was Isaac Neeley is Frank Lyle, a scientist and business partner of Miles Clifton, the founder of Clifton Village; the real Isaac Neeley is dead.  - Running Out of Time (Haddix novel)
  • It is then that he learns the real reason for the rats' hatred of Overlanders: a mysterious prophecy written by the human colony's founder Bartholomew of Sandwich hints that an Overland "warrior" will stop an attempt by the rats to take over the underground realm once and for all.  - Gregor the Overlander
  • But in its final stages, the project is suddenly dropped by a single man - Katsutoshi Katsuragi (Ryo Ishibashi) the son of the original founder and Vice President of Mikado Beer.  - Game (2003 film)
  • At this point, Amala's younger brother (named Sankara - a play on Adi Sankaracarya, the founder of the Monistic system of Hindu Vedic Philosophy called Advaita Vedanta), who is devoutly studying the Vedas and passing through the student phase of his Brahmin life, is left an orphan.  - Vedham Pudhithu
  • Jacob Bookbinder is founder and part owner of an industrial ice-making plant, known to Herbie and his cousin Cliff Block as The Place, a location that plays both a significant role in Herbie's fate and an adult sub-plot that frames the climax of the story.  - City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder
  • Daemon Curry, a man who believes himself to be the figure mentioned in several religions (for example: the second christ/antichrist and believes in the prophecies of Nostradamus), is the founder and leader.  - SpyHunter
  • The new leader of the Matarese is an enigmatic figure named Jan van der Meer Matareisen, according to himself the only legitimate grandchild of Baron Guillaume de Matarese, the founder of the Matarese group.  - The Matarese Countdown
  • Upon arriving at Point Blanc, Alex meets the founder Dr Grief and later a student who goes by the name of James Sprintz as well as a group of other boys he gets to know through the week such as Hugo Vries, Tom McMorin, Nicolas Marc, Cassian James and Joe Canterbury.  - Point Blanc
  • The house was built on ground wrongfully seized from its rightful owner, Matthew Maule, by Colonel Pyncheon, the founder of the Massachusetts branch of the family.  - The House of the Seven Gables
  • Sunay is a staunch Turkish Republican, who had often played with great conviction political leaders such as Robespierre, Napoleon and Lenin, but whose dream to play Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, was frustrated.  - Snow (Pamuk novel)
  • When Derk visits Elda, he has half a mind to take her home, but actually gives them a reading list strong in magical theory, especially the work of university founder Policant.  - Year of the Griffin
  • The action takes place mainly on board an old wooden-walled battleship, HMS Battledore, which has been purchased by a Trust for the rehabilitation of young criminals, and intended by the founder to put backbone into young jellyfish.  - Murder Ahoy!
  • Chong' (an uncredited appearance by the founder of American Kenpo, Ed Parker) is thwarted when Clouseau successfully fights him off (believing him to be Clouseau's valet Cato (Burt Kwouk), who has orders to keep his employer alert with random attacks).  - Revenge of the Pink Panther
  • After being informed of the robbery, Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer), the chairman of the board of directors and founder of the bank, hires "fixer" Madeleine White (Jodie Foster) to try to protect the contents of his safe deposit box within the bank.  - Inside Man
  • Around 1614, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the ruler of Japan and the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, perceives the threat posed by the two clans.  - Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
  • Eventually, he becomes the founder of a new religion called Din-e-Ellahi, which combines both Hinduism and Islam.  - Jodhaa Akbar
  • The party includes Doc Hawkins, the founder of the hunt, a psychotic psychiatrist who specializes in psychological assessments, Cole, Texas "oil man" John Griffin, wealthy executive Derek Wolfe, Sr, and his son, Derek Wolfe, Jr, who is at first unaware of the true purposes of the hunt.  - Surviving the Game
  • The three track down Professor Farnsworth, founder of an intergalactic delivery company called Planet Express.  - Space Pilot 3000
  • The founder of Tong Xin Yuan, Zhou Dong (Chen Shucheng), married a beautiful factory worker Li Tian (Louise Li) many years ago.  - Portrait of Home
  • Warren Williams, the Kings' underboss, encourages founder Benjamin King to take harsher action against the Saints.  - Saints Row (video game)
  • Shortly thereafter, Angel, Betty and Inga go to the Plaything Mansion, and meet Bob Gordon (Jay Richardson), the founder of Plaything Magazine.  - Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold
  • There, the president of Scientology determines that, because his reading is so high, Stan must be a reincarnation of Ron Hubbard, Scientology's founder and prophet.  - Trapped in the Closet (South Park)
  • In the end, with the help of Yoshimori's mother and Tokimori, Yoshimori and Tokine find a new site for Chūshinmaru by displacing the founder of the Urakai from the domain of a land-god that the founder had taken over.  - Kekkaishi
  • Onimaru (鬼麿) is the descendant of a line of men whose founder was betrayed by the Japanese government, and whose spirit seeks revenge by making Onimaru a sexually depraved demon king.  - Twin Angels
  • On his way home, he witnesses the riots and chaos over the issue of the formation of Pakistan and the call by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan, for "Direct Action".  - Hey Ram
  • Twenty years later, a stranger who turns out to be the son of the founder of The Wisbech Rock Festival recognises keyboardist Tony Costello and convinces him to reunite the band for a special anniversary of the event.  - Still Crazy
  • Bode is also the founder and self-proclaimed "leader" of a fledgling militia, which consists solely of himself and Chub.  - Lucky You (novel)
  • On the present day, Kreese visits his Vietnam War comrade Terry Silver, a wealthy businessman who owns a toxic-waste disposal business and is the founder of the Cobra Kai.  - The Karate Kid Part III
  • Blake had also found in the vestry books & notes indicating that the trapezohedron was of vastly ancient origin,far predating man, and having been used by the Pharaoh Nephren-Ka before it was found -and used - by Enoch Bowen,professor and founder of the Starry Wisdom Cult.  - The Haunter of the Dark
  • Francis returns home, and reads an encyclopedia entry on genetics, which mentions Mendel as the founder of modern genetics through his experiments on plant hybridization.  - Felidae (novel)
  • A complete mystery to all, Gate also holds great power over economic, political and military affairs, and is the founder of the Hebble Foundation and the GunValkyrie (GV) Organization, composed of Halley's Chosen throughout the world to prevent the misuse of technology.  - Gunvalkyrie
  • The game's primary antagonist is the founder of the Mechanists, Father Karras (also voiced by Russell), a mentally unstable inventor who despises the natural world.  - Thief II
  • Karin Sasamori is a schoolmate of Takaaki's and the founder of the school's mystery club.  - To Heart 2
  • The address leads them to an office in a grungy alley, where they discover that the founder and proprietor of the business is Cartman.  - My Future Self 'n' Me
  • A message to them sent on time-delay reveals them they can either remain safe on Earth for Friends agents to find them, or search for the enigmatic Weaver, founder of the Outernet.  - Outernet (novel series)
  • Lisa goes to the historical society to research Jebediah Springfield, the founder of Springfield.  - Lisa the Iconoclast
  • In order to investigate the murder of ACN founder Christopher Stern, he must re-earn his Headhunter licence by taking part in virtual-reality tests (called LEILA tests) and capture some of the most dangerous criminals in the city.  - Headhunter (video game)
  • Opening in medias res as the news staff of The Weekly Islander pays for lunch at a restaurant, editor Dave Bowie and founder Vince Teague test young intern Stephanie McCann's powers of deduction regarding their tipping procedure.  - The Colorado Kid
  • They are taken to a secret and brutal training camp in Foulness, run by the second battalion's commanding officer Lieutenant-Colonel Girdwood and the regiment's disgraced founder Sir Henry Simmerson.  - Sharpe's Regiment (novel)
  • His father, emperor Canilek (Snakestar, in mayan) was the founder and leader of the Great Universal Alliance (a galactic United Nations of sorts) that opposed emperor Asura's militaristic campaign of universal conquest.  - Karmatron
  • He comes to know that Max and Shirley were actually the illegitimate children of Alberto Vasco, the founder of the town.  - Josh (2000 film)
  • Meanwhile, with travel between the universes cut off, Vexcor Alpha must turn to a person who can travel between the universes without a link: 01 Boxer, the son of company founder Brion Boxer.  - Charlie Jade
  • Their founder is known Australian terrorist Sid Burn.  - Vigilante 8
  • However, a Korean female researcher who followed Inoue and attempted to stop him becomes the founder of Hureisenjin and passes along the story of the truth of the altered timeline, with the hope that the original timeline can somehow be restored.  - 2009: Lost Memories
  • Yuji Shinoda, the founder of the GPN, discovers the secret to Godzilla's regenerative properties (named Organizer G1 in the Japanese version, but Regenerator G1 in the North American release), but so has the UFO.  - Godzilla 2000
  • Samuel de Champlain, founder of the settlement, sends Father LaForgue, a young Jesuit priest, to find a distant Catholic mission in a Huron village.  - Black Robe (film)
  • The adventure is based on a story written by Neopets founder Adam Powell.  - Neopets: The Darkest Faerie
  • The 1993 British documentary criticised Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho for his close ties to the military dictatorship and suggestively compared him to the Kane figure for manipulation of news.  - Beyond Citizen Kane
  • At the Willeford building, it is revealed that both Barbara and mr Willeford, the morbidly obese founder of the company, have been tracking Carl's movements through the city.  - Hard Boiled (comics)
  • One day, Chris receives an unexpected phone call from Steel Dragon's founder and rhythm guitarist, Kirk Cuddy (Dominic West), and is offered an audition for the band (thanks to two of Blood Pollution's groupies, who showed Kirk a videotape of one of Blood Pollution's concerts).  - Rock Star (2001 film)
  • Ryu (voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi) is an amnesic young man with the mysterious ability to transform into powerful dragons, with his "other half" being Fou-Lu (voiced by Isshin Chiba), the principal antagonist and founder of the Fou Empire centuries ago with similar abilities, yet a much more malevolent personality.  - Breath of Fire IV
  • Eager to meet Motown founder Berry Gordy, Otis and Melvin corner Gordy in the bathroom after their performance and get his business card.  - The Temptations (miniseries)
  • The message is a final confession from the Comprachicos, written in the certainty that their ship was about to founder in a storm.  - The Man Who Laughs
  • Jak is revealed to have the birth name of Mar in this game, named after his ancestor and the original founder of Haven City, Mar.  - Jak 3
  • He has the same name as a Carolingian paladin count who is a character in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso [III, 30]; he is the son of Bertoldo and was the reputed founder of the House of Este.  - Jerusalem Delivered
  • In the movie, it is assumed to be in western Nevada) He kills the only men who stand up to him, town founder mr Fee (Paul Birch) and town undertaker mr Hanson (Elisha Cook, Jr), as well as raping and killing Fee's girlfriend Flo (Ann McCrea).  - Welcome to Hard Times (film)
  • Inigo, the first dreamer, and founder of Living Dream, has disappeared leaving the 5 billion strong Living Dream movement in a state of flux.  - The Dreaming Void
  • Meanwhile, she is forced to remain concerned about the very same kinetic bombardment platform that killed her mentor Pei Shan-Wei and most of her supporters after the Church's founder Eric Langhorne used it to destroy her Alexandria enclave.  - By Schism Rent Asunder
  • Eric Langhorne plots to rule as the deified founder of the Church of God Awaiting, a religion that proscribes innovation as heresy punishable by torture and death.  - Off Armageddon Reef
  • Those interviewed include the organization's founder Thomas Henchly, Susan's superior Cass Faison, Rae Kallmann and Maud Jordan, two white volunteers, and Beth Tiger, a black stenographer Archie takes immediate interest in.  - A Right to Die
  • In order to prove his gaming skills, Wiebe travels to Funspot Arcade in Laconia, New Hampshire, to perform a high score live for Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day and other high-ranking members of Twin Galaxies, hoping to confront Mitchell and play head-to-head.  - The King of Kong
  • Day 9:Interview with the founder of Afghan Human Rights Committee about the involvement of United States and western powers in Afghanistan and terrorism.  - 16 Days in Afghanistan
  • In front of the rest of the girls, Galleria introduces herself as the founder and songwriter of The Cheetah Girls, which is not appreciated by the group's other members.  - The Cheetah Girls (film)
  • The alien introduces four more beings: Earth warlord Colonel Green, who led a genocidal war during the 21st century); Klingon Kahless, founder of the Klingon Empire; a feral-looking woman named Zora (who conducted brutal experiments on the primitive tribes of Tiburon); and Earth barbarian Genghis Khan.  - The Savage Curtain
  • Holmes receives a visit from dr Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England.  - The Adventure of the Priory School
  • After giving an interview for the holovision show Behind the Hero, Ratchet and Clank are suddenly teleported to the Bogon galaxy by Abercrombie Fizzwidget, the founder and CEO of MegaCorp, the galaxy's largest maker of consumer goods and electronics, who offers them a job recovering a stolen biological experiment.  - Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
  • Graduate researchers Chris Hughes, Kate Erickson, André Marek, and David Stern follow him to ITC and meet its founder Robert Doniger, who tells them Johnston has used their quantum technology to travel to the year 1357.  - Timeline (novel)
  • In 1967, Simplot and McDonald's founder Ray Kroc agreed by handshake that the Simplot Company would provide frozen french fries to the restaurant chain.  - J. R. Simplot
  • Having studied the actions of Joseph Ander, the ancient founder of Anderith, Richard comes to realize that the chimes and the Dominie Dirtch are connected.  - Soul of the Fire
  • As the trilogy continues, the reader is introduced to Ashlar, founder of a multi-million dollar toy corporation based in New York City—and a Taltos, possibly the last of his kind on earth.  - Taltos (Rice novel)
  • She declares that she is the founder and president of Primrose Restoria Pills, and she does good works with her extra capital.  - On the Twentieth Century
  • Father Hulk reveals himself as the demon Habaruku, founder of the Church of st Eva and Ryu does battle with him.  - Breath of Fire II
  • When he returns, it suddenly strikes him that the founder of the Perret Institute and the oldest scientist on Marcus Chalfen's panel is Dr Perret, the Nazi he captured during World War II.  - White Teeth
  • The "We-Sleep" movement is an attempt by founder Calvin Hawke to rejuvenate working-class pride by buying and selling only products made by Sleepers; despite the fact that the products themselves are often shoddy and over-priced, revenues have been lucrative.  - Beggars in Spain
  • Its members swear allegiance to , the Group's founder and leader, with faltering loyalty punishable by death.  - Giant Robo (OVA)
  • It was created by the strictly Christian Kulu Kingdom, but when its founder Prince Michael Saldana chose to also accept affinity gene implants and have them inherited by his children, Tranquillity was excommunicated by the Kingdom and its leaders disinherited.  - The Reality Dysfunction
  • Negru-Vodă from the tale appears to be a fusion between Radu Negru, the traditional founder of Ţara Românească (Wallachia), and Neagoe Basarab, the historical builder of the church.  - Meșterul Manole
  • To cope with the inspectorate, the corporate elevator establishment, and other looming elements, she must return to her intellectual roots, the texts (both known and lost) of the founder of the school, to try to reconstruct what is happening around her.  - The Intuitionist
  • Thus, for example, the founder of a religion or great religious leader becomes a Grand Tutor (in German Grosslehrer), and Barth renames specific leaders as well: Jesus Christ becomes Enos Enoch (meaning in Hebrew "The man who walked with God" or "humanity when it walked with God"), Moses becomes Moishe, Buddha becomes the original Sakhyan.  - Giles Goat-Boy
  • With his help, Zoë plants a Trojan Horse program in Eingana and later meets Alvin Peats, the founder of WATI and the mastermind behind Alchera.  - Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
  • Pham Nuwen, the founder of the Qeng Ho trading culture, is living aboard the fleet under the pseudonym Pham Trinli, posing as an inept and bumbling fleet elder.  - A Deepness in the Sky
  • In the Enneads of Plotinus, a founder of Neoplatonism, everything is contemplation (theoria) and everything is derived from contemplation.  - Theoria
  • Dearheart is the daughter of the Clacks founder Robert Dearheart, though the company was taken away from her father and the other founders by tricky financial maneuvering.  - Going Postal
  • In the ship, she discovers Galiana, the original founder of the Conjoiners, who left Conjoiner space decades previously on an exploration mission.  - Redemption Ark
  • The school, modeled on Yates' own experiences as an adolescent at Avon Old Farms School, is called Dorset Academy, a small private institution dependent on its now senile founder, a wealthy older woman named Abigail Church Hooper, a thinly-veiled reference to Avon Old Farms founder Theodate Pope Riddle.  - A Good School
  • While refused entry at first, Max is brought before the founder and ruler of Bartertown, the ruthless Aunty Entity.  - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
  • Hōnen (the founder of the Pure Land Buddhism in Japan) concisely outlines the essential doctrines (reciting Amida’s name, repentance, deep faith guarantee rebirth in the Pure Land).  - The Tale of the Heike
  • He then meets with his mother, Time, and his father, Wen the Eternally Surprised (the first Abbot of Oi Dong monastery and founder of the History Monks) before effectively taking over Time's job.  - Thief of Time
  • Three important personalities were living in Zürich at that time: the modernist author James Joyce, the communist revolutionary Lenin, and the founder of Dada, Tristan Tzara.  - Travesties
  • The son is Martin the Warrior, founder of Redwall, who sets forth from the Abbey seeking the truth about the father he barely knew.  - The Legend of Luke
  • Matthias in the meanwhile begins having visions of the Abbey founder Martin the warrior who guides him, The Abbey inhabitants, who refuse to back down, make ready to defend themselves if necessary; most of the inhabitants of the surrounding area are now within Redwall.  - Redwall (novel)
  • In October 1983, members of the white supremacist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA), including founder James Ellison and Richard Snell plotted to park "a van or trailer in front of the Federal Building and blow it up with rockets detonated by a timer".  - Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
  • Pteppic succeeds in destroying the Pyramid, returning Djelibeybi to the real world and sending Dios back through time (where he meets the original founder of the Kingdom, thereby restarting the cycle).  - Pyramids (novel)
  • With Gael as High King of Ireland and founder of the eventual Gaelic race, Slaine left to track down his son.  - Sláine (comics)
  • After dinner with some Blue Ant employees, the company founder Hubertus Bigend offers Cayce a new contract: to uncover who is responsible for distributing a series of anonymous, artistic film clips via the internet.  - Pattern Recognition (novel)
  • After Itachi dies in battle, Sasuke learns from the Akatsuki founder Tobi that Itachi was ordered by Konoha's superiors to destroy his clan to prevent a coup d'état.  - Naruto
  • After giving birth to a still-born baby at age 19, she found spiritual comfort listening to the radio sermons of Preston Bradley, a famous Chicago preacher and founder of the People's Church, a church which promoted the brotherhood of man.  - Guiding Light
  • Meanwhile, the company's founder and president, Waring Hudsucker, unexpectedly commits suicide during a business meeting by jumping out of a top-floor window.  - The Hudsucker Proxy
  • In the Prelude to Dune (1999–2001) prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Anderson, it is noted that the founder of the Bene Tleilax had been a Master named Xuttuh.  - Bene Tleilax
  • So the founder of Mysidia, the great magician Ming-Wu, broke the Crystal into eight pieces.  - Chocobo Racing
  • Witwer reports this to the director and founder of PreCrime, Lamar Burgess, but Burgess responds by killing Witwer using Anderton's gun.  - Minority Report (film)
  • The last domestic motorcycle manufacturer in the country is Corley Motors, whose founder and CEO, the elderly Malcolm Corley (Hamilton Camp), is en route to a shareholders meeting at the Corley factory, accompanied by his vice president, Adrian Ripburger (Mark Hamill).  - Full Throttle (1995 video game)
  • Athamas the Minyan, a founder of Halos in Thessaly but also king of the city of Orchomenus in Boeotia (a region of southeastern Greece), took the goddess Nephele as his first wife.  - Golden Fleece
  • He knocks on the palace doors and calls for Cadmus, the founder and former king of Thebes.  - The Bacchae
  • The founder of Shangri-La is said to be hundreds of years old, preserved, like the other residents, by the magical properties of the paradise he has created, but is finally dying and needs someone wise and knowledgeable in the ways of the modern world to keep it safe.  - Lost Horizon (1937 film)
  • They learn that Goines is the founder of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, and set out in search of him.  - 12 Monkeys

Example sentences for "founder" in interesting articles

  • "Much more needs to be done by government, business and society to achieve clean air," said New Delhi-based Bhaskar Deol, founder of Mynergy Renewables Pvt.  - NASA Data Shows Toxic Air Threat Choking Indian Subcontinent
  • That’s when CompSys sued him, saying he had at least seven months left on his contract. “I definitely think companies use these tactics to make money,” said Bade, who said he paid nearly $6,000 to the company to settle its lawsuit. CompSys founder Malini Sridhar did not return messages left on her cellphone.  - Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
  • There have been rumours that the project is a prelude to the abolition of public aid, though Dewala said: “We don’t see it as a substitute, but as extra support.” Left’s vision of a good society The study’s economist, Guy Standing, professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and a founder member of the Basic Income Earth Network, has been defending the idea of an unconditional income for 25 years.  - Experiment in paying villagers in India an unconditional basic income
  • The city, as I was exaggeratively informed by John Schidlovsky, founder and director of the IRP, "was built on mold" and with my allergy to mold so severe that I carry an epipen, I found myself taking more than the recommended dose of allergy meds just to breathe, each day grateful it wasn't the rainy season.  - India is drowning in its own excreta
  • After the crowded hustle of Delhi, more than 3,000 miles away, he can now walk mile upon lonely mile without seeing a single person.His closest friend here - the founder of the Finnish humanist society Pekka Elo - died late last year.  - The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland
  • After the crowded hustle of Delhi, more than 3,000 miles away, he can now walk mile upon lonely mile without seeing a single person.His closest friend here - the founder of the Finnish humanist society Pekka Elo - died late last year.  - The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland
  • Nagarajan, founder of the company.  - WSJ: "India Graduates Millions But Too Few Are Fit to Hire" - Yes, But .....
  • Chanakya was the minister to Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire, which emerged in an environment resembling a Westphalian Europe of many states that encompassed most of present day South Asia.  - Chanakya: India's Machiavelli
  • This is a suicidal step for the Indian economy, India's IT and telecom businesses, the government's ambitions of Make in India and disenfranchises and excludes every Indian in the information era. FB founder Mark Zuckerberg met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in October 2014 and is said to have discussed internet.org as a means to "bring connectivity for everyone".  - Internet.org will finish internet the way we know it, hurt India’s growth
  • They also argue that the platform will stifle the start-up culture and curb innovation. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has time and again defended the platform, saying that it aims to connect those who have not been able to get access to the internet.  - Indian Regulator Temporarily Suspends Facebook’s Free Basics
  • Meet the founder of '5-Hour Energy'-a 2-ounce energy drink in a red and yellow bottle, which controls 90% of the US energy-shot market with retail sales estimated at $1 billion.  - Manoj Bhargava, richest Indian in US commits 90% earnings to charity
  • And there is space for many many more, if you have founder dreams. If you want to do services web dev, and work with small teams of bright people in a great office atmosphere, they should go work for someone like C42.  - Why startups in India find it hard to hire devs
  • It’s a phase that has been typically associated with Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, when he is promoting Internet.org (see this and this), and Facebook representatives use it while suggesting that Internet.org isn’t playing gatekeeper.  - Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India
  • And then, built right here in India, is Vivilio. Priyanka Gupta, the founder of Vivilio, has had a long and interesting history with building ideas around books; her previous foray was IndiaBookStore.net, which is a nifty price comparison tool for book lovers - in a time where you can buy books from multiple websites. Priyanka Gupta As Priyanka puts it, IndiaBookStore was a very focused product, with users knowing that they were there to look for price comparisons.  - Show HN: NotCRUD – Hacker News of India
  • I see successful founders giving back to the founder community in a big way through investments, mentorship and driving industry hygiene. However, there aren’t enough successful founders yet to cater to the much larger group of new founders who need help.  - The Silent Killers Of Startup Growth In India
  • Twitter has said in the past that sending messages via the SMS gateway is one of their most expensive operations, so the fact that only a small fraction of their users use the SMS option makes their task a lot easier than GupShup's. So I sat down with Beerud Sheth, co-founder of Webaroo, the company behind GupShup (the other founder Rakesh Mathur is my co-founder from a prior company, Junglee).  - India's SMS GupShup Has 3x The Usage Of Twitter And No Downtime
  • "This surely has inhibited non-Apple consumers from buying Apple products," online technology magazine Pluggd.in founder Ashish Sinha told AFP.  - Indians cry out for Apple's attention
  • Now and then, as a sign of victory, slain foes were scalped, and in especially large clashes, adversaries might meet in the open, as in European battlefields, though the results, Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island Colony, noted, were “farre less bloudy, and devouring then the cruell Warres of Europe.” Inside the settlement was a world of warmth, family and familiar custom.  - Native Intelligence: The Indians who feasted with the English colonists (2005)
  • From a roadside egg-seller in Bhopal to a soda hawker in Bangalore, the founder of Paytm has posted snapshots of the unusual array of merchants who ply the teeming streets of India -- and are now turning to his digital payments startup for help.Those fishmongers, vegetable vendors and rickshaw drivers count among the thousands who’ve signed onto India’s largest digital payments service since Prime Minister Narendra Modi triggered a nationwide cash crunch when he scrapped the country’s two largest note denominations.  - Cash Ban the Best Thing to Happen to Indian Digital Payments
  • Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the founder of Paytm.  - The leaky bucket of Indian food delivery startups
  • Murthy is the co-founder of Seedfund, a venture capital firm and founder of Pinstorm, a digital brand management firm.  - Indian Internet company valuations - Stop Blowing Our Bubbles
  • When introducing the topic of skilled immigration, the discussion moderator, Sand Hill Group founder M.R.  - Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China
  • But also think about how to meet new types of people for breadth.In a later article, we’ll cover the very best way to improve your connections: join a community.More reading:Chapter 4 of The Startup of You by the founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.Give and Take, by Professor Adam Grant, which is about how the most successful people are those with a giving mindset, in part because it helps them to build more connections.Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi.  - Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job
  • magazines 41st fastest growing company. Startup #6: SparkFun SparkFun is an online store for electronic bits and pieces that brought in revenue of over $10 million in 2010. How’d they do it? After blowing up some electronic parts and searching the internet for replacements, founder Nathan Seidle saw a business opportunity for an online electronic parts store. Starting the business with about $2500 in credit card debt, Seidle originally purchased a random assortment of products, unsure of what would sell.  - Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups
  • All rights reservedTerms of usePrivacySitemapTheIntercept_ft✉⎕29Photo: Jeff Chiu/APInternet Archive Successfully Fends Off Secret FBI OrderKim ZetterKim Zetter2016-12-01T20:01:52+00:00Photo: Jeff Chiu/APA decade ago, the FBI sent Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, a now-infamous type of subpoena known as a National Security Letter, demanding the name, address and activity record of a registered Internet Archive user.  - Internet Archive successfully fends off secret FBI order
  • That means you need to work harder and smarter than the 99% – who are aspiring to do the same thing. Passion isn’t enough (everyone can be passionate) to get you there. But, timing is. In a study of 200 startups, Bill Gross (the founder of Idealab) discovered that timing was a bigger factor in success than your team, your idea, the business model… and even funding! Here’s his Ted Talk (it’s only 6:40 minutes): Timing is what matters most. It’s why some of the biggest startups today are on top of the podium.  - Why You Need More Than Passion to be Successful
  • This argument was fueled by a CNN program called Blacks in America: The New Promised Land — Silicon Valley. The program showed Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch and an investor, stating that he did not know any black entrepreneurs.  - How To Be A Successful (African) American in Silicon Valley
  • By the year 2000, more or less every home and school had access to a quality network. Cold winters Not a proven fact, but the cold and dark winters are not exactly encouraging for being outside, something that makes playing games or making games an more attractive alternative. Management culture Martin Walfisz, founder of Massive Entertainment and now founder of Planeto, said during an interview I did with for Øresund Startup News: I think the Nordics are really good at games because of our consensus driven management style.  - Why are there so many successful Swedish gaming companies?
  • And they are far more likely to be the founder of a successful technology company than most of you understand.  - When It Comes To Founding Successful Startups, Old Guys Rule
  • “downsized” their support for RSS as consuming feeds takes people away from the sites that make their money on advertising and analytics but they cannot afford to drop support for RSS altogether as it remains the de facto standard protocol for describing and transporting media across the Internet. There is a rather recent blog article from the founder of WordPress and he explains they serve 7.5 million RSS feeds every week.  - The War On RSS
  • Anyone out there up for the challenge of starting a mattress company? Warby Parker founder disrupting industries while casually leaning against a table.  - We Need a Warby Parker for Mattresses
  • Also: site-wide HTTPS gets an SEO boost. Still not on HTTPS? You can pick up free DV HTTPS certs from Let's Encrypt, CloudFlare, or Heroku. If you have an active registered company and want to prove your identity with EV HTTPS, give CertSimple a try - we're an EV-only HTTPS provider that specialises in helping you pass through the required background checks as painlessly as possible! Mike MacCana, founder at CertSimple. CertSimple makes EV HTTPS fast and painless. An EV certificate proves your website is controlled by a real business.  - Chrome is warning users about insecure pages
  • To see it in action, download our  hbspt.cta.load(2098604, 'e0593374-b716-4b4e-a162-f8df9b7d5880', {}); About Jen Andre Jen is the founder and CEO of Komand.  - Early Warning Detectors Using AWS Access Keys as Honeytokens
  • "It’s a very unfair playing field and you see what that's doing to department stores all over the country." Amazon does not own the Post, but the paper is owned by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.  - Trump, our next president, promised to block AT&T/Time Warner merger
  • Thank you for these golden lessons. Julie Kim McMahon It just empowered me to move forward and strengthened my voice as I became founder of a small tech consulting firm who works with nonprofits.  - Andrew Warner's Mixergy Celebrates 1,000th interview
  • The Clash of the Cultures by John Bogle Bogle's The Clash of the Cultures is another recommendation from the 2012 shareholder letter.In it, Bogle - creator of the index fund and founder of the Vanguard Group, now managing upward of $US3 trillion ($3.9 trillion) in assets - argues that long-term investing has been crowded out by short-term speculation.But the book isn't all argument.  - Books Warren Buffett thinks you should read
  • Five years after Peter Thiel said the simplest predictor of a startup’s success is whether a founding CEO pays herself less than $100,000 – $125,000 per year, the typical founder of a company that hasn’t yet released its first product earns, according to private salary surveys, nearly $200,000 per year. And that’s just the beginning.  - Searching For Beasts In Silicon Valleys War For Talent
  • Cunningham credits this philosophy to Network Startup Resource Center founder Randy Bush, who helped Cunningham set up the server that C2 ran on when it first launched in 1994. When Cunningham met him in 1994, Bush was helping universities in developing nations set up web servers and connect them to the internet.  - Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops federated wiki
  • Those fuckers who are living the lives that we could be living, were we willing to lie just a little, or cheat just a little. And so, Biddle was given new marching orders: go after the tech workers, not their bosses. Today a Valleywag search for, let's say, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, garners precisely one result: a post which says almost nothing about the eBay founder's wealth or what he's spending it on.  - Inside Nick Denton's phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers
  • We also know that it’s what we have and that it’s important in diagnosing breast cancer.” (The statistic was subsequently removed from its Web site.) In “Pink Ribbon Blues,” Gayle Sulik, a sociologist and founder of the Breast Cancer Consortium, credits Komen (as well as the American Cancer Society and National Breast Cancer Awareness Month) with raising the profile of the disease, encouraging women to speak about their experience and transforming “victims” into “survivors.” Komen, she said, has also distributed more than $1 billion to research and support programs.  - Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer
  • Type in “jobs” and FB Search would know you’re looking for news on the Apple founder and not employment.  - The Great Tech War Of 2012
  • Things may get tough with the move we’re trying. —Scene from The Godfather Recently, Eric Schmidt stepped down as CEO of Google and founder Larry Page took over.  - Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO
  • Here’s the CEO of the company: “Canadian consumers and businesses have an opportunity to be the first to experience the benefits of MintChip digital cash,” said Laurence Cooke, CEO and founder of nanoPay.  - The War on Cash
  • “You bastard!” she screamed while bludgeoning him with an umbrella, “you ruined it—it tastes like shit!” The national frenzy reached a bizarre crescendo when a man named Gay Mullins, founder of the Old Cola Drinkers of America, attempted to file a lawsuit to force the Coca-Cola company to restore the 99-year-old original flavor.  - How Coca-Cola won the war
  • BURNS and RAVI SOMAIYA Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, faces a variety of challenges after his most brazen disclosure yet: posting 391,832 secret Pentagon documents on the Iraq war.  - The War Logs: An archive of classified military documents
  • As quoted by his biographer, Apple�s founder and CEO Steve Jobs stated: Our lawsuit is saying, �Google, you .  - The Next Step in Apple's Thermonuclear War Against Android
  • Wallace, the founder of Pioneer Hi-Bred Seeds, who Lee described as “the Bill Gates of the seed industry.” Wallace, the son of the longtime president of the Cornbelt Meat Producers, first encountered the problem of genetic variation while studying corn breeding at Iowa State Agricultural College.  - Corn Wars
  • And yet that’s literally what some of these bloggers are saying! Incidentally, 2009 is shaping up to be the 5th warmist year on record, according to the conspiracists at NASA. Nate Silver is the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight.  - Nate Silver on the Leaked Global Warming Emails
  • For instance, Terry Gou, the founder and chairman of the electronics manufacturer Foxconn, announced this year a plan to purchase 1 million robots over the next three years to replace much of his workforce.  - Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines
  • Frankly, the type of engineer we like to hire couldn’t possibly be happy in one of those firms, so this doesn’t present much of a problem for us.” “SO YOU MET DAVE, huh? Was he smiling?” Marc Cenedella, founder of TheLadders, a website that lists only $100K-plus jobs, asked The Observer.  - Inside the War for Tech Talent
  • In very early 1986 Tim Jenison, founder of NewTek, began distributing these full-color digitized photographs, the first of their kind ever to be seen on a PC screen, to Amiga public-domain software exchanges.  - The 68000 Wars, Part 1: Lorraine
  • Zendo’s founder calls it a “crypto unicorn” and claims it is a game-changer in terms of security. It isn’t.  - Be wary of one-time pads and other crypto unicorns
  • If you are a passionate microcap investor, Join Us. Share this:FacebookGoogleLinkedInTwitterEmailPrint Related About the MicroCap Expert AuthorIan Cassel Facebook TwitterIan is a full-time microcap investor and founder of MicroCapClub, the MicroCap Leadership Summit, and co-founder of the Intelligent Fanatics Project.  - Warren Buffett's Net Worth by Age
  • Homeschoolers are a huge reason for the evangelical conservative takeover we’ve seen over the last decade or so; it would be a mistake to write them off. Self-proclaimed constitutional lawyer Michael Farris, the founder of HSLDA, and revisionist historian David Barton have spent years twisting their interpretation of the U.S.  - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
  • Given that Lessig has become the public face for those who feel that copyright has been stretched too far, as well as being a founder of Stanford's Fair Use Project, and who's written multiple books on these issues, you would think (just maybe) that any copyright holder would at least think twice before sending a DMCA takedown on a Larry Lessig presentation. Apparently, you'd be wrong. Lessig has announced that Warner Music issued a DMCA takedown on one of Lessig's own presentations, in which his use is almost certainly fair use.  - Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation
  • The competition is so fierce that some of the top New York startups, like Foursquare, are actually opening Silicon Valley offices to gain access to the wealth of talent there. “We’ve been lucky in New York to build such a great team, but we don’t have it easy because there’s a lot of competition between different startups and the big guys like Google and big finance,” said Dennis Crowley, the founder and CEO of Foursquare, the booming mobile networking site with a valuation somewhere north of $100 million.  - War for tech talent in NYC
  • REUTERS/Nigel Marple WELLINGTON A New Zealand court on Wednesday ruled that the search warrant used in the arrest of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom on U.S.  - NZ court rules Megaupload warrant legal, dealing blow to Dotcom
  • And is the founder of Squidoo.   Full Interview Transcript Expand to view full transcript Collapse to smaller transcript view Andrew: Before we get started I’ve got to acknowledge the support that I get from Grasshopper, the virtual phone system that entrepreneurs love, from Shopify, where you go to create an online store in minutes and from RichWP.com where you get a new theme for your website that you can customize.  - Andrew Warner's latest interview with Seth Godin
  • It’s not surprising that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who brokered the publishing of Private Manning’s documents, and Glenn Greenwald, the columnist for The Guardian who has led the Snowden revelations, have also come under intense criticism. Advertisement Continue reading the main story What is odd is that many pointing the finger are journalists.  - War on Leaks Is Pitting Journalist vs. Journalist
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted political asylum by Ecuador, but he remains holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.  - Noam Chomsky Praises Julian Assange
  • ASHINGTON: CEO and founder of popular site LinkedIn Reid Hoffman urged the US Congress and the Obama Administration to remove the cap on H-1B visas, which enable foreign nationals to live and work in the United States.  - Remove cap on H-1B: LinkedIn CEO
  • "I believe it is a deliberate omission," says P M Bhargava, founder director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.  - Why did world forget Bosons father?
  • Mark Zuckerberg has returned to writing code after a six-year hiatus from programming, a fact revealed in Bloomberg Businessweek's story today on how the Facebook founder hacked the world of Silicon Valley. Like many young entrepreneurs, Zuckerberg had given up coding to focus on running the business.  - Why Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg returned to writing code
  • Ganhugiyn Purevbata, founder and professor of the Mongolian Institute of Buddhist Art at Ulaanbaatar Buddhist University, told The Siberian Times: "Lama is sitting in the lotus position vajra, the left hand is opened, and the right hand symbolizes of the preaching Sutra.  - Mummified 200-year-old monk found in Mongolia in 'very deep meditation'
  • This year with his paper fortune of $17.5 billion, he races past Google's Brin and Larry (at $16.7 each). The other tech czars Zuckerberg leaves behind are Dell founder Michael Dell ($15 billion) and Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer ($13.9 billion). Zuckerberg, who is at No.  - Facebook CEO now richer than Google founders
  • Rajiv Dhabadkar, founder of the advisory National Organisation for Software & Technology Professionals (NO STOPS) claims the website receives about 300-400 posts every day, often anonymous, detailing work-related horrors.  - From Techies to Slaves: Murky Underbelly of Indian H1B Visa Holders
  • Nick D'Aloisio, founder of online news aggregator Summly, was 17 when Yahoo bought his company last year for $30 million. Brothers John and Patrick Collison, behind payments service Stripe, were 16 and 19 when they sold an earlier business to a Canadian company for $5 million. After reading a fundraising flyer about the blind, Banerjee felt inspired to turn a high-tech version of Legos, the toy building blocks, into a device that could print in Braille.  - 13-year-old Indian-origin boy gets Intel funding for low-cost Braille printer
  • Safra Catz, who was co-president and CFO of Oracle until Thursday, has just been promoted to co-CEO — alongside Mark Hurd — after its founder and longtime CEO Larry Ellison announced he's stepping down to the executive chairman position. Oracle said in a statement that Catz will be responsible for all manufacturing, finance, and legal decisions, while Hurd will be in charge of sales, service, and global business units.  - World most paid female CEO
  • "He paid over $2,000 towards his training fee, lodging and boarding," said Rohit Aggarwal, founder and CEO of Koenig Solutions.  - Edward Snowden sharpened his hacking skills in Delhi
  • US-based tabloid National Enquirer claims to be publishing photos of Jobs taken on February 8 outside Stanford Cancer Center that show the Apple founder looking extremely thin and frail. According to various media reports, in the photos, an extremely "skeletal-looking" Jobs can be seen getting out of his car at the center, just one day after he was spotted at work on Apple's Cupertino campus. In January, fifty-five-year-old Jobs took third medical leave from Apple in seven years.  - 'Apple CEO may have six weeks to live' - The Times of India
  • Pawan Sharma, founder of the NGO RAWW (Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare), who was present with forest officials at the Powai campus, said, "Many strategies are being planned by the forest officials to trap the animal.  - IIT-Bombay students deploy robot to spot leopard
  • "The other possibility is that the Page founder grants a stranger admin rights to the Page. While this might not sound like the best idea, there are several services, such as Fiverr, where you can find plenty of people offering to help you to maximise the success of your Facebook Page." "If you give a cut-price 'social media expert' admin rights to your Facebook Page, you really only have yourself to blame if you're ousted," continued Cluley.  - Facebook security flaw may lead to page hijacking
  • US-based tabloid National Enquirer claims to be publishing photos of Jobs taken on February 8 outside Stanford Cancer Center that show the Apple founder looking extremely thin and frail. According to various media reports, in the photos, an extremely "skeletal-looking" Jobs can be seen getting out of his car at the center, just one day after he was spotted at work on Apple's Cupertino campus. In January, fifty-five-year-old Jobs took third medical leave from Apple in seven years.  - Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have only six weeks to live
  • US-based tabloid National Enquirer claims to be publishing photos of Jobs taken on February 8 outside Stanford Cancer Center that show the Apple founder looking extremely thin and frail. According to various media reports, in the photos, an extremely "skeletal-looking" Jobs can be seen getting out of his car at the center, just one day after he was spotted at work on Apple's Cupertino campus. In January, fifty-five-year-old Jobs took third medical leave from Apple in seven years.  - Apple CEO Steve Jobs may live only 6 weeks
  • The students will showcase their work in various hackathons at the event. Building a resume outside work or academia is a key factor driving tech hiring in startups, says Sachin Gupta, founder and CEO of HackerEarth, which helps close to 150 companies solve hiring challenges for technical job profiles, charging them based on the number of candidates hired. "Majority of the hiring is done based on pedigree, due to which genuine talent is overlooked.  - Hackathons are new hiring tool
  • After his photo-op on top of a traditional lorry full of merchandise, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spent some time with TOI talking about competition, Flipkart's hoardings, infrastructure and why India puts a spring in his step. Amazing India energizes me If there's anything that energizes Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, it's his trademark loud laugh.  - Jeff Bezos on why India puts a spring in his step
  • ANGALORE: E-commerce giant Amazon, whose founder and CEO Jeff Bezos recently spoke of the possibility of drones dropping goods to US homes in the near future, is embracing the neighbourhood kirana store to push the delivery advantage in India.  - In India, Amazon uses mom and pop stores to deliver products
  • Kenny Ramanand, founder of Springboard, says data analytics can enable candidates to focus their attention on areas and booths that can pay them the greatest dividends. "We can tell them which booths have delivered in the past, where the margins of defeat have been low in the past and therefore have potential for change," said Ramanand, who is currently working for six candidates.  - Indian Startups build business models around the General Elections
  • Incubated by IIT-Bombay's Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Purple Squirrel's founder Aditya Gandhi says being in the area has given him access to all that a start-up needs to survive.  - Welcome to 'Powai Valley', India's new start-up hub
  • I am also now the founder of Women In Technology Hamilton, which not only helps women in the field, but encourages women outside the field of IT and computing so that it's not so scary.  - To my daughter's high school programming teacher
  • They'll discuss their ideas and their thought processes around building their companies. Resources Office Hours Transcript How to Get Ideas and How to Measure - Stewart Butterfield & Adam D'AngeloIn today's lecture, we're joined by Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, and Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora.  - 2011 Startup School
  • The founder and majority owner of French ISP Free, Niel is a billionaire many times over.  - This French tech school has no teachers, no books, no tuition
  • She didnt mention that the owners traveled extensively picking ingredients at tiny farms and bakeries, or brag about their customer service (their founder wrote a best-selling book about it), or describe their massive mail-order sales, or explain the seminars and tastings from which they generate a substantial profit, etc.  - Business School is a Joke
  •     Intelligence In Ron’s words, being a founder is a vocation.  - Startup School 2014 Recap and Videos
  • They'll discuss their ideas and their thought processes around building their companies. Resources Office Hours Transcript How to Get Ideas and How to Measure - Stewart Butterfield & Adam D'AngeloIn today's lecture, we're joined by Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, and Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora.  - Startup School 2017 First Lecture
  • They'll discuss their ideas and their thought processes around building their companies. Resources Office Hours Transcript How to Get Ideas and How to Measure - Stewart Butterfield & Adam D'AngeloIn today's lecture, we're joined by Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, and Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora.  - 2012 Startup School, Oct 20 at Stanford
  • manufacturing jobs Obama recalled a conversation he had with Mark Zuckerberg about how the Facebook founder taught himself programming at a young age.  - Obama endorses required high school coding classes
  • The event, held last week, included great talks from the likes of VMWare founder Diane Greene, Evernote CEO Phil Libin, Airbnb’s Nate Blecharczyk, Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Win a trip to Amsterdam! We've teamed up with Product Hunt to offer you the chance to win an all expense paid trip to TNW Conference 2017! CHECK IT OUT All of the talks have been posted online, including the inspirational one given by Watsi founder Chase Adam.  - Startup School 2013 Videos Now Online
  • His name was Vasiliy Georgievich Bogin, and he was the school’s founder and maestro. Advertisement Continue reading the main story We had just left Brooklyn and were spending our first year in Russia in St.  - My Familys Experiment in Extreme Schooling
  • They'll discuss their ideas and their thought processes around building their companies. Resources Office Hours Transcript How to Get Ideas and How to Measure - Stewart Butterfield & Adam D'AngeloIn today's lecture, we're joined by Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, and Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora.  - Watch YC Startup School 2012 Live
  • They'll discuss their ideas and their thought processes around building their companies. Resources Office Hours Transcript How to Get Ideas and How to Measure - Stewart Butterfield & Adam D'AngeloIn today's lecture, we're joined by Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, and Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora.  - Applications open for Startup School
  • At that point, Lewis was the football, soccer, and softball coach, the athletic director, and the founder of the chess club.  - A Middle-School Cheating Scandal Raises Questions About No Child Left Behind
  • is executive editor of operations at Some Spider and the founder of ProGhostwriters.com.  - Study: Kids whose parents hold them back from school a year have advantages
  • And this gets into another debate, which is, okay you guys go on and on about creativity and all this stuff, why do you want the founder to stand up there like an idiot for 50 minutes reading off powerpoint slides? Why don't we just have a conversation? Why don't we do things casual? Why don't you do more research up front? Again, I think that's misinterpreted.  - Marc Andreessen at Startup School [video]
  • They help startups complete set of formation paperwork, from incorporation to founder stock issuance to foreign qualification.  - Startup School Online: Registration and Deals
  • Neill, the founder of Summerhill, believed that a child should live his or her own life, “not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.” And this was how my parents continued to approach our education once my siblings and I were in school.  - My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists (2011)
  • That prompted 42’s founder Xavier Niel to invest $90 million of his own money in the school. Niel, the creator of France’s third largest telecommunications company, Free, says the social elevator in France is broken. “If you’re the son of a blue-collar worker, you’re going to be a blue collar worker,” Niel says.  - A School With No Teachers, Where Students Teach Themselves
  • The real story doesn't fit the drop-out founder image promoted by Hollywood and the press. Zuck also brought up that he can't relate to the allure of starting a company for the sake of starting a company.  - Startup School And Survivor Bias
  • Ben Casnocha, the 19-year-old founder of software company Comcate and author of the new memoir My Start-Up Life, is the son of a San Francisco lawyer and has tapped Silicon Valley brains and bank accounts.But Ashley had no connections.  - Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
  • The good news is that we get plenty of baristas with PhDs though the scum, alas, continues to rise to the top. http://juridicalcoherence.blogspot.com/ Stephen Diamond The answer, of course, is that within group signalling militates for Zahavi handicaps. Hanson’s claim that the uniqueness of humans resides in our drive to mimic the prestigious seems to founder on countersignaling, which suggests that the drive to imitate the prestigious isn’t the fundamental drive.  - School Is to Submit
  • In the high school programs, Treehouse will come into schools with little or no computer coursework and will provide curriculum and virtual instruction, changing the lives of teens who might not otherwise get the opportunity to learn how the Internet really works. “I am so excited about this,” said Treehouse founder Ryan Carson in a VentureBeat interview last week. “The school I’m most excited about is in San Jose.  - Treehouse gets $7M to bring learn-to-code programs to high schools
  • They bring together some of the most important and interesting people in tech startups and have them give candid, non-pitchy talks about what they’ve learned as a founder or investor. This year, Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium was packed pretty much wall to wall on both levels.  - The Most Memorable Quotes (I Could Capture) From Startup School 2012
  • They'll discuss their ideas and their thought processes around building their companies. Resources Office Hours Transcript How to Get Ideas and How to Measure - Stewart Butterfield & Adam D'AngeloIn today's lecture, we're joined by Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, and Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora.  - 2009 Startup School, October 24 at Berkeley
  • Homeschoolers are a huge reason for the evangelical conservative takeover we’ve seen over the last decade or so; it would be a mistake to write them off. Self-proclaimed constitutional lawyer Michael Farris, the founder of HSLDA, and revisionist historian David Barton have spent years twisting their interpretation of the U.S.  - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
  • 7, the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, the regulator that oversees coding schools in California, assessed Nicholas James, the founder of Coding House, a $50,000 fine and ordered the school to shut down.  - Want a Job in Silicon Valley? Keep Away from Coding Schools
  • WIRED OPINION About David Edwards is a professor at Harvard University and the founder of Le Laboratoire.  - American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist
  • Meanwhile, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, founded by pediatrician Priscilla Chan and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, her husband, has funded programs in the Ravenswood district including literacy and leadership initiatives, Hernandez-Goff said, adding that she meets with Chan or her staff monthly.  - More than one-third of schoolchildren are homeless in shadow of Silicon Valley
  • you can’t control deals, so don’t be optimistic about them. having a founder is like you’re married but not fucking. luck is a big factor in startups.  - Startup School 2009 Notes & Summary
  • Glyph is the founder of the Twisted project and an incredibly warm person.  - Announcing the Hacker School Maintainers Program
  • had at least one immigrant founder,” wrote Aol founder Steve Case (Aol is the parent company of TechCrunch). And, our brightest native and immigrant minds are greeted with extraordinary research and economic opportunity.  - Why Its Never Mattered That Americas Schools Lag Behind Other Countries
  • President Obama and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg extended invitations of Mohamed.  - 9th grader arrested after bringing a home-built clock to school
  • WIRED OPINION About David Edwards is a professor at Harvard University and the founder of Le Laboratoire.  - American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist
  • Education is something worth investing in and if we can help make things better it will make all of our lives better. Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook.  - Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120M to needy Bay Area schools
  • First of all, the terms and the amount of money available in America is massive. Aaron Harris: And by “terms” you mean? Michael Seibel: Meaning founder friendly terms for funding, for terms that don’t deep-six your company from day one.  - Startup School Radio: Michael Seibel on the Toughness of International Founders
  • In India, on the other hand, entrepreneurs like K Suryakala Reddy, founder of New Little Scholars School in Hyderabad, are forced to file false applications for home loans to finance schools.For critics, though, the popularity of low-cost schools is a dangerous trend, one that will ultimately marginalize the very poor.  - Incredibly low-priced private schools
  • They'll discuss their ideas and their thought processes around building their companies. Resources Office Hours Transcript How to Get Ideas and How to Measure - Stewart Butterfield & Adam D'AngeloIn today's lecture, we're joined by Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, and Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora.  - Startup School 2009
  • They'll discuss their ideas and their thought processes around building their companies. Resources Office Hours Transcript How to Get Ideas and How to Measure - Stewart Butterfield & Adam D'AngeloIn today's lecture, we're joined by Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, and Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora.  - 2008 Startup School April 19. Confirmed so far: Andreessen, Bezos, DHH
  • I'm not a founder myself, but mix closely enough with them that I've moved a long ways from the MBA.A few scattered thoughts:- MBAs are among the most applied grad degrees one can take.  - Why are business schools failing at the education of entrepreneurship?
  • The founder of this cool new school, Lee Allison, took time out from teaching to answer some questions about his project via email.  - Google+ cooking school
  • The next best thing would be a broadly available music API for startups to develop on, which Imeem had offered before it was taken out, Caldwell said. “If You Can’t Sell the Shirt, Don’t Give It Away.” That’s a direct quote from GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner, who talked about making reasoned decisions to build and grow a company.  - My Favorite Startup Lessons From Startup School
  • We believe we can connect the dots and create a better solution for both. A founder’s perspective A founder really only has two critical roles: company direction and hiring.  - Thinking bigger: a free engineering school
  • In addition to my full time job working for a Fortune 100 company, I'm the founder of www.MyRepresentatives.com; your one stop shop for engaging with your political representatives online.  - Teach Hacking in High Schools
  • Karp in charge of Tumblr’s product development and finding a more seasoned chief executive. Photo David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, on Monday with Marissa Mayer, the chief executive of Yahoo. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times Mr.  - David Karp Quit School to Get Serious About Tumblr
  • They'll discuss their ideas and their thought processes around building their companies. Resources Office Hours Transcript How to Get Ideas and How to Measure - Stewart Butterfield & Adam D'AngeloIn today's lecture, we're joined by Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, and Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora.  - Startup School 2007: 3/24 at Stanford
  • They'll discuss their ideas and their thought processes around building their companies. Resources Office Hours Transcript How to Get Ideas and How to Measure - Stewart Butterfield & Adam D'AngeloIn today's lecture, we're joined by Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, and Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora.  - Today is your last day to apply to Startup School
  • Visit codeschool.com Share This Post Twitter Facebook Google-plus Reddit Linkedin Mail About the Author Gregg Pollack Gregg is the founder and editor-in-chief of Code School.  - Code School Has Joined the Pluralsight Team
  • “[Parents] have limited time,” says founder Eva Moskowitz.  - Why volunteering at your kid's school does not make her smarter
  • There’s no risk.Circular structure - everyone’s responsible to anyone else.No founder titles in Watsi.  - Nuggets from Startup School 2013
  • Sometimes that means being a single founder is right choice” – Shana Fisher #startupschool — Jason Shen (@JasonShen) June 18, 2014 “Ask investors the last deals they did.  - Highlights from Startup School NYC 2014
  • With him was Priscilla Chan, wife of the Facebook founder and his partner in philanthropy.  - Inside Facebook's plan to build a better school
  • Currently, he is founder and CTO of Shopximity where he works to make shopping better for everyone.  - Facebook is now mission-critical - for high schoolers doing homework, anyway
  • Please try again later. Uploaded on Jan 29, 2009Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, speaks at Startup School 08 about how to create a successful startup.  - Paul Graham at Startup School (2008) (video)
  • "We should unscrew the legs." Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad is believed to be the world's eighth richest man It was a light bulb moment.  - How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world
  • Theranos is a highly ambitious company with a strikingly ambitious founder and a lot still to prove.  - The 30-year-old health sector billionaire
  • After the crowded hustle of Delhi, more than 3,000 miles away, he can now walk mile upon lonely mile without seeing a single person.His closest friend here - the founder of the Finnish humanist society Pekka Elo - died late last year.  - The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland
  • Apple has resisted the demand saying the FBI order was "dangerous" and "unprecedented".Speaking to the Financial Times, the Microsoft founder said complying would not put a backdoor in all iPhones.  - Bill Gates calls for terror data debate
  • After the crowded hustle of Delhi, more than 3,000 miles away, he can now walk mile upon lonely mile without seeing a single person.His closest friend here - the founder of the Finnish humanist society Pekka Elo - died late last year.  - The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland
  • 'Remorselessly conservative'If such alleged behaviour is typical, it could explain Japanese firms' productivity crisis, says Rochelle Kopp, founder of Japan Intercultural Consulting, an international training and consulting firm focused on Japanese business.  - Why is Japan using cassette tapes and faxes?
  • The highway I drive on is named after the founder of the company.  - Heavy metal: Life at the world's largest shipyard
  • Amancio Ortega (Spain): founder of Zara owner Inditex (net worth $67bn) 3.  - Eight billionaires 'as rich as world's poorest half'
  • The Rasa, which received a £2m Welsh grant in 2015, will go on trial for 12 months later this year, with the final model set for release in 2018.Hugo Spowers, founder of Riversimple, said the prototype marked a "key milestone" in bringing the Rasa to market.  - Welsh-made hydrogen car prototype unveiled for trial
  • There's less of a clear case for European governments to support what is still more expensive energy when it's people in other parts of the world who are getting those jobs."Daniel Egbe: Africa must share the benefits Danie Egbe is an evaluator for the World Bank, a chemist, an academic and the founder of ANSOLE, a network of Africans for Africa, with a focus on renewable energy.  - Should we solar panel the Sahara desert?
  • MUMBAI: Rahul Yadav, co-founder & CEO of Housing.com, announced at a company town hall held in a suburban hotel in Mumbai that he is allotting all his shares to employees of the realty portal, in what comes across as an unprecedented move by a company founder and leaves him with no skin in the game.  - Housing.com CEO gives his entire stake to employees
  • They also argue that the platform will stifle the start-up culture and curb innovation. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has time and again defended the platform, saying that it aims to connect those who have not been able to get access to the internet.  - Indian Regulator Temporarily Suspends Facebook’s Free Basics
  • In 2014, it was the fourth most popular YouTube channel.Others are less appropriate, narrated by what one parent described as "helpful but sweary" adults.Bec Oakley is founder of MineMum, a blog intended to help guide parents through the minefield that is Minecraft.She is not surprised that it has become so popular on YouTube."YouTube is this generation's television.  - Minecraft videos – why are they so addictive?
  • Can big data really revolutionise our world? We explore how the explosion of information and analysis will impact our lives and our privacy. Power of big data Surprising findingsWhile the popular image of the start-up founder is a Mark Zuckerberg-style dorm room twenty-something - Mattermark and Bloomberg's research found that a typical business founder was often quite different.  - Over 40? Data says you could be the perfect entrepreneur
  • Take element 114, flerovium - named after the founder of the Dubna research centre - the existence of which was confirmed by a team under Nitsche's leadership.  - Plutonium: The element that saved the crew of Apollo 13
  • Therefore the consequences of some error or terror are greater than in the past," he says.Lord Rees, along with Cambridge philosopher Huw Price and economist Sir Partha Dasgupta and Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, wants the proposed Centre for the Study of Existential Risk to evaluate such threats.So should we be worried about an impending doomsday?This isn't a dystopian fiction.  - How are humans going to become extinct?
  • Image caption The relatively high cost of the Tesla Model S, when compared to petrol-based cars, has limited its sales Its founder admitted that its future would depend on the cheaper Model 3 version, which he said would go into production at the end of 2017.  - Tesla chief Elon Musk says Apple is making an electric car

Meaning of "founder" in English

  • a person who founds or establishes some institution
  • a worker who makes metal castings
  • inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
  • stumble and nearly fall
  • break down, literally or metaphorically
    Examples
    - The business collapsed
    - The dam broke
    - The roof collapsed
    - The wall gave in
    - The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice
  • sink below the surface
  • fail utterly; collapse

Meaning of "founder" in Hindi

  • संस्थापक ( Sansthapak, sansthaapak)
  • प्रवर्तक ( Pravartak, prawartak)
  • निर्माता ( Nirmata, nirmaataa)
  • स‌ंस्थापक ( Sansthapak, sansthaapak)
  • संप्रवर्तक ( Sanpravartak, sanprawartak)
  • डूबना ( Dubana, doobanaa)
  • गिर जाना ( Gir jana, gir janaa, gir zana)
  • बैठ जाना ( Baith jana, baith janaa, baith zana)
  • असफल हो जाना ( Asaphal ho jana, asaphal ho janaa, asafal ho zana)

Synonyms of "founder"

  • break
  • give
  • collapse
  • flop
  • give way
  • founding father
  • cave in
  • father
  • beginner
  • fall through
  • fall flat
  • laminitis
  • fall in

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